Made-in-Canada vaccine shows promise
A homegrown mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 shows promising results in its first small trial and its maker is hoping to test it directly against the vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech.
Providence Therapeutics
Canadian company urges human trials for its COVID-19 vaccine
A Canadian company is telling the government today, August 5, 2020, that its trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine on animals completely blocked the virus, but it must conduct human trials to know whether it has found a possible cure for the pandemic.
Canada praised for avoiding 'vaccine nationalism' in race for COVID-19 cure
A top American health expert is praising Canada for not succumbing to "vaccine nationalism" because of its efforts to push for fair global distribution of a cure for the COVID-19 pandemic.